Advanced Imaging Platform
The CRIUCPQ-ULaval advanced imaging platform (AIP) is a modern university infrastructure fully dedicated to research. It offers researchers high-tech imaging equipment that meets the needs of human and animal research.
The AIP includes a 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging system, an ultrafast CT scanner equipped with 256 detectors as well as a Lunar iDXA bone densitometer.
Our Team
- Scientific Director: Dr Éric Larose
- Administrative manager: Michèle Cyr
- Coordinator: Dr Xavier Moreel
Equipment and Services
This platform, located in Pavilion A of CRIUCPQ-ULaval, set up for accommodating research participants under optimal conditions (reception point, waiting room, locker room, sampling room, etc.). It also has a processing room for biological specimens that is available to research teams.
The AIP has direct access to CRIUCPQ-ULaval animal facility, which eases the performance of preclinical protocols.
The AIP team provides technical assistance to all researchers, both in the planning and the imaging testing, and in their analysis. Images of the examinations being undertaken are remotely accessible via a secure server.
Equipment
3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (Ingenia 3T MRI; Philips)
- Conventional examinations of different organs
- Functional MRI
- Spectroscopy (determination/quantification of the tissue fat fraction)
Computerized axial tomography (iCT scanner, 256 detectors; Philips)
Bone densitometry (Lunar iDXA; GE Healthcare)
- Bone density (whole body, half body, lumbar spine, forearm. . .)
- Body composition
* All AIP’s devices and infrastructure are appropriate for the care of participants who have severe overweight.
Service Request
Contact the AIP in order to discuss your projects and explore the opportunities it provides in undertaking your human and animal research work.
Dr Xavier Moreel
Forms
Examination request form (French only)
Questionnaire on contraindications for MRI (French only)
